sandywp / plugins / no-category-parents
No Category Parents
Removes the mandatory 'Category Base' and every parent category from your category permalinks.
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v0.3.1 6,000+ installs WP 6.0+ PHP 7.4+
About this plugin
This plugin completely removes the mandatory ‘Category Base’ and all the parents from your
category permalinks (e.g. /category/parent-category/my-category/ becomes /my-category/).
It also shortens post permalinks when you use the /%category%/ permastruct, so a post filed
under a deeply nested category still gets a short URL.
If a post or page already uses the same slug as a category, the post keeps the clean URL and
the category is served from /my-category-cat/ instead.
Questions
- My category URLs did not change
Go to Settings > Permalinks and press Save once. That rebuilds the rewrite rules.
- Do old links with the parent path still work?
Yes.
/parent-category/my-category/keeps resolving to the same archive.
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